Dahlem Center for Linguistics
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Linguistische Forschung und Lehre an @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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http://dcl.fu-berlin.de
Posts: @teapotlinguist.bsky.social
Impressum: http://fu-berlin.de/impressum
#OTD 223 years ago, August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887) was born 🥳 He started working as a schoolmaster in Celle, but would later become one of the pioneers of (historical comparative) linguistics as well as the leading scholar of Romani in the 19th century.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
#OTD 223 years ago, August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887) was born 🥳 He started working as a schoolmaster in Celle, but would later become one of the pioneers of (historical comparative) linguistics as well as the leading scholar of Romani in the 19th century.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 206 years ago, Daniel Sanders (1819–1897) was born 🎉 A lexicographer and poet, he is best known as the co-author of the Muret-Sanders English-German Dictionary and as a critic of Jacob Grimm’s dictionary. The German city of Neustrelitz awards a prize in his honour.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#OTD 206 years ago, Daniel Sanders (1819–1897) was born 🎉 A lexicographer and poet, he is best known as the co-author of the Muret-Sanders English-German Dictionary and as a critic of Jacob Grimm’s dictionary. The German city of Neustrelitz awards a prize in his honour.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 124 years ago, Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982) was born 🥳 She was a leading scholar of Old English, best known today for her editions of Old English texts. She was the first woman to hold the Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#OTD 124 years ago, Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982) was born 🥳 She was a leading scholar of Old English, best known today for her editions of Old English texts. She was the first woman to hold the Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 159 years ago, Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) was born 🎉 He was one of the most influential historical linguists of the twentieth century, who formulated the so-called Meillet’s Law on Proto-Slavic accents and in 1912 coined the term “grammaticalisation.”
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#OTD 159 years ago, Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) was born 🎉 He was one of the most influential historical linguists of the twentieth century, who formulated the so-called Meillet’s Law on Proto-Slavic accents and in 1912 coined the term “grammaticalisation.”
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 134 years ago, Ida Suter (1891–1974) was born 🎉 An expert dialectologist, she spent 30 years working on the Swiss German Dictionary (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social) and contributed to the edition of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s (1746–1827) letters.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#OTD 134 years ago, Ida Suter (1891–1974) was born 🎉 An expert dialectologist, she spent 30 years working on the Swiss German Dictionary (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social) and contributed to the edition of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s (1746–1827) letters.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Hast du genug Rizz, um Algspeak-Meister*in zu werden?
Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖
17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café
Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖
17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café
Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hast du genug Rizz, um Algspeak-Meister*in zu werden?
Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖
17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café
Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖
17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café
Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
#OTD 114 years ago, Ruth Klappenbach (1911-1977) was born 🎉 She focused on lexicography, became one of the co-founders and co-editors of the Dictionary of Contemporary German Language (Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, 1952-1977).
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#OTD 114 years ago, Ruth Klappenbach (1911-1977) was born 🎉 She focused on lexicography, became one of the co-founders and co-editors of the Dictionary of Contemporary German Language (Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, 1952-1977).
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 191 years ago, Lucy C. Lloyd (1834-1914) was born 🥳 She was an ethnologist as well as a linguist, she collected an archive of ǀXam and ǃKung texts, who, in 1913, received an honorary doctorate for her work as the first woman in South Africa.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#OTD 191 years ago, Lucy C. Lloyd (1834-1914) was born 🥳 She was an ethnologist as well as a linguist, she collected an archive of ǀXam and ǃKung texts, who, in 1913, received an honorary doctorate for her work as the first woman in South Africa.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 127 years ago, Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain (1898-1975) was born 🎂 During her anthropological and linguistic career, she investigated the origins of Haitian Creole and conducted field research in Haiti, but also in Congo, Togo, and Nigeria.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#OTD 127 years ago, Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain (1898-1975) was born 🎂 During her anthropological and linguistic career, she investigated the origins of Haitian Creole and conducted field research in Haiti, but also in Congo, Togo, and Nigeria.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Studentin such Proband:innen für ein Experiment 🕵
- einsprachig aufgewachsene Deutsch-Muttersprachler:innen
- Italienischkenntnisse B1/B2
- keine neurologischen/sprachlichen/auditiven Beeinträchtigungen
Vergütung 25€ 🤩
emma.mensching ät fu-berlin.de
#BLinguistik #Experiment #Sprachwissenschaft
- einsprachig aufgewachsene Deutsch-Muttersprachler:innen
- Italienischkenntnisse B1/B2
- keine neurologischen/sprachlichen/auditiven Beeinträchtigungen
Vergütung 25€ 🤩
emma.mensching ät fu-berlin.de
#BLinguistik #Experiment #Sprachwissenschaft
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Studentin such Proband:innen für ein Experiment 🕵
- einsprachig aufgewachsene Deutsch-Muttersprachler:innen
- Italienischkenntnisse B1/B2
- keine neurologischen/sprachlichen/auditiven Beeinträchtigungen
Vergütung 25€ 🤩
emma.mensching ät fu-berlin.de
#BLinguistik #Experiment #Sprachwissenschaft
- einsprachig aufgewachsene Deutsch-Muttersprachler:innen
- Italienischkenntnisse B1/B2
- keine neurologischen/sprachlichen/auditiven Beeinträchtigungen
Vergütung 25€ 🤩
emma.mensching ät fu-berlin.de
#BLinguistik #Experiment #Sprachwissenschaft
#OTD 134 years ago, Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Chinese grammar and phonology and the author of the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Latinised spelling system for Standard Chinese. He served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1945.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#OTD 134 years ago, Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Chinese grammar and phonology and the author of the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Latinised spelling system for Standard Chinese. He served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1945.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Die nächste Vortragende der #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics ist Anna Havinga (@germanatbristol.bsky.social). Sie analysiert den spätmittelalterlichen Wechsel von Latein zu den Vernakularsprachen in Schottland und Norddeutschland 🤩
Mehr Info: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
Mehr Info: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Die nächste Vortragende der #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics ist Anna Havinga (@germanatbristol.bsky.social). Sie analysiert den spätmittelalterlichen Wechsel von Latein zu den Vernakularsprachen in Schottland und Norddeutschland 🤩
Mehr Info: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
Mehr Info: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
Gegentuul Baioud (Uppsala): Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China
30 October 2025, 16:00
Via Zoom (registration needed): unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Organised by Giulia Cabras (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) together with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
30 October 2025, 16:00
Via Zoom (registration needed): unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Organised by Giulia Cabras (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) together with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
October 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Gegentuul Baioud (Uppsala): Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China
30 October 2025, 16:00
Via Zoom (registration needed): unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Organised by Giulia Cabras (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) together with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
30 October 2025, 16:00
Via Zoom (registration needed): unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Organised by Giulia Cabras (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) together with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
#OTD 116 years ago, Zellig Harris (1909–1992) was born 🎉 A Semiticist who later turned to formal and mathematical approaches to language. His work on linguistic transformations made him a key precursor to Generative Grammar.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#OTD 116 years ago, Zellig Harris (1909–1992) was born 🎉 A Semiticist who later turned to formal and mathematical approaches to language. His work on linguistic transformations made him a key precursor to Generative Grammar.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 129 years ago, Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) was born 🎂 A central figure in the Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles and a zaum poet, he is known for his theory of markedness, his model of the six functions of language, and for coining the term “structuralism.”
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
#OTD 129 years ago, Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) was born 🎂 A central figure in the Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles and a zaum poet, he is known for his theory of markedness, his model of the six functions of language, and for coining the term “structuralism.”
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 225 years ago, Christian Lassen (1800–1876) was born 🎂 An orientalist who made major contributions to the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform, the Brahmi script, and the Kharoshthi inscriptions on Bactrian coins.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
#OTD 225 years ago, Christian Lassen (1800–1876) was born 🎂 An orientalist who made major contributions to the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform, the Brahmi script, and the Kharoshthi inscriptions on Bactrian coins.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 193 years ago, Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895) was born 🎉 A language teacher, publisher, and founder of a publishing group. Together with Charles Toussaint, he developed an innovative method for self-learning languages. A bridge in Berlin is named in his honour.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#OTD 193 years ago, Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895) was born 🎉 A language teacher, publisher, and founder of a publishing group. Together with Charles Toussaint, he developed an innovative method for self-learning languages. A bridge in Berlin is named in his honour.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 106 years ago, Rudolf Macúch (1919–1993) was born 🥳 A scholar of Semitic languages, specializing in Neo-Syriac, and an expert on Mandaeism and Samaritanism. In 1998, a minor planet in the asteroid belt was named 24974 Macúch in his honor 🪐
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#OTD 106 years ago, Rudolf Macúch (1919–1993) was born 🥳 A scholar of Semitic languages, specializing in Neo-Syriac, and an expert on Mandaeism and Samaritanism. In 1998, a minor planet in the asteroid belt was named 24974 Macúch in his honor 🪐
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule?
Am 6. November 2025 um 18:15 sprechen genau darüber Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) und Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) 🤩
🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...
@berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Am 6. November 2025 um 18:15 sprechen genau darüber Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) und Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) 🤩
🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...
@berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule?
Am 6. November 2025 um 18:15 sprechen genau darüber Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) und Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) 🤩
🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...
@berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Am 6. November 2025 um 18:15 sprechen genau darüber Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) und Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) 🤩
🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...
@berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#OTD 134 years ago, Louise Kaiser (1891–1973) was born 🎉 A pioneering experimental phonetician, as well as an anthropologist and artist. In 1926, she became the first female lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (@uva.nl).
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
October 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
#OTD 134 years ago, Louise Kaiser (1891–1973) was born 🎉 A pioneering experimental phonetician, as well as an anthropologist and artist. In 1926, she became the first female lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (@uva.nl).
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
Quechua, Guaraní und Nheengatu im Kontakt mit Spanisch und Portugiesisch am Rio Negro. Uli Reich und André Amorim (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) stellen ihr Projekt zu Informationsstruktur und Modalität in diesen Sprachen vor.
Mehr Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
Mehr Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
October 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Quechua, Guaraní und Nheengatu im Kontakt mit Spanisch und Portugiesisch am Rio Negro. Uli Reich und André Amorim (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) stellen ihr Projekt zu Informationsstruktur und Modalität in diesen Sprachen vor.
Mehr Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
Mehr Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
#OTD 218 years ago, Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) was born 🎂 A linguist and Prime Minister of Saxe-Altenburg, he studied a diverse range of languages, including Cherokee, Khasi, Komi, Manchu, Mongolian, Mordvin, Mari, and Gothic.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#OTD 218 years ago, Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) was born 🎂 A linguist and Prime Minister of Saxe-Altenburg, he studied a diverse range of languages, including Cherokee, Khasi, Komi, Manchu, Mongolian, Mordvin, Mari, and Gothic.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Das Wintersemester 2025/26 ist da und das beudeutet auch eine neue Serie von acht Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics zu diversen hochspannenden Themen der Linguistik 🤩
Weitere Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics #DahlemCenterForLinguistics #Linguistics #Linguistik #Sprachwissenschaft
Weitere Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics #DahlemCenterForLinguistics #Linguistics #Linguistik #Sprachwissenschaft
October 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Das Wintersemester 2025/26 ist da und das beudeutet auch eine neue Serie von acht Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics zu diversen hochspannenden Themen der Linguistik 🤩
Weitere Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics #DahlemCenterForLinguistics #Linguistics #Linguistik #Sprachwissenschaft
Weitere Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics #DahlemCenterForLinguistics #Linguistics #Linguistik #Sprachwissenschaft
#OTD 327 years ago, Johanna Corleva (1698–1752) was born 🥳 Translator, grammarian, and likely the first female lexicographer from the Netherlands. She translated grammatical treatises into Dutch, including the Port-Royal Grammar.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#OTD 327 years ago, Johanna Corleva (1698–1752) was born 🥳 Translator, grammarian, and likely the first female lexicographer from the Netherlands. She translated grammatical treatises into Dutch, including the Port-Royal Grammar.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx